Non-transitory storage medium storing program readable by label printer or operation terminal, label creating method, and the label printer

Abstract

A non-transitory storage medium stores a program for: obtaining first to fourth positional information and first and second image information from a storage, displaying a first image indicated by the obtained first image information and a second image indicated by the obtained second image information; receiving selection of one of the first image and the second image displayed on a display, based on an operation of an operation device; and when selection of the first image is received, transmitting information including the first positional information and the second positional information, as cutting-position information indicating cutting positions in a tape, and when selection of the second image is received, transmitting information including the third positional information and the fourth positional information as the cutting-position information.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. A non-transitory storage medium storing a program readable by a controller of one of a label printer and an operation terminal connectable to the label printer,
 wherein the label printer comprises a label creating mechanism configured to create a label by cutting a tape at cutting positions, the tape comprises an elongated label, the elongated label comprises a plurality of first portions and a plurality of second portions in a longitudinal direction of the tape, and each of the plurality of second portions has a dimension greater than a dimension of each of the plurality of first portions in a widthwise direction of the tape, 
 wherein the program is configured to cause the controller to perform:
 executing an obtaining processing in which the controller obtains, from a storage, (i) first positional information indicating a first position on one of a first portion and a second portion, the first portion being one of the plurality of first portions, the second portion being one of the plurality of second portions, (ii) second positional information indicating a second position, different from the first position, on one of the first portion and the second portion, (iii) first image information, (iv) third positional information indicating a third position on one of the first portion and the second portion, (v) fourth positional information indicating a fourth position, different from the third position, on one of the first portion and the second portion, and (vi) second image information; 
 executing an image display processing in which the controller controls a display of the one of the label printer and the operation terminal to display a first image based on image data, obtained from the storage, indicating a first label of a first shape and a second image based on image data, obtained from the storage, indicating a second label of a second shape different from the first shape, the first label being created by cutting the tape in the widthwise direction at the first position and the second position, the second label being created by cutting the tape in the widthwise direction at the third position and the fourth position; 
 executing a selection reception processing in which the controller receives selection of one of the first image and the second image displayed on the display, based on an operation of an operation device of the one of the label printer and the operation terminal; and 
 executing a transmitting processing in which, when selection of the first image is received in the selection reception processing, the controller causes the one of the label printer and the operation terminal to transmit information comprising the first positional information and the second positional information, as cutting-position information indicating the cutting positions in the tape, to one of the label creating mechanism and the label printer, and when selection of the second image is received in the selection reception processing, the controller causes the one of the label printer and the operation terminal to transmit information comprising the third positional information and the fourth positional information, as the cutting-position information, to the one of the label creating mechanism and the label printer. 
 
 
     
     
       2. The non-transitory storage medium according to  claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to, in the obtaining processing, obtain (a) a first template comprising the first positional information, the second positional information, and the first image information, and (b) a second template comprising the third positional information, the fourth positional information, and the second image information. 
     
     
       3. The non-transitory storage medium according to  claim 1 ,
 wherein the third position in the tape relating to the second shape is identical to one of the first position and the second position in the tape relating to the first shape, and 
 wherein the fourth position in the tape relating to the second shape is different from the first position and the second position in the tape relating to the first shape. 
 
     
     
       4. The non-transitory storage medium according to  claim 1 , wherein the first label is created by cutting one of the plurality of first portions in the widthwise direction at the first position and cutting another of the plurality of first portions in the widthwise direction at the second position, and the one of the plurality of first portions and the another of the plurality of first portions are adjacent to each other in the longitudinal direction. 
     
     
       5. The non-transitory storage medium according to  claim 1 , wherein the first label is created by cutting the second portion in the widthwise direction at the second position. 
     
     
       6. The non-transitory storage medium according to  claim 1 , wherein the second label is created by cutting the second portion in the widthwise direction at the third position and cutting the second portion in the widthwise direction at the fourth position. 
     
     
       7. The non-transitory storage medium according to  claim 1 , wherein the first label is created by cutting one of the plurality of first portions in the widthwise direction at the first position and cutting one of the plurality of second portions in the widthwise direction at the second position, and the one of the plurality of second portions is adjacent to the one of the plurality of first portions and located on a first side of the one of the plurality of first portions in the longitudinal direction. 
     
     
       8. The non-transitory storage medium according to  claim 1 ,
 wherein the second label is created by cutting the first portion in the widthwise direction at the third position, 
 wherein the first image indicates the first label of the first shape in which the first position in the first portion is located inside the second portion folded in the longitudinal direction, and 
 wherein the second image indicates the second label of the second shape in which the third position in the first portion is located outside the second portion folded in the longitudinal direction of the tape. 
 
     
     
       9. The non-transitory storage medium according to  claim 1 , wherein the program is configured to cause the controller to perform:
 executing an area display processing in which, in response to the selection received in the selection reception processing, the controller sets an input area on one of the selected first image and the selected second image and displays the input area on the display, and the input area is an area which has a size corresponding to the second portion and to which a print object is inputtable, and 
 in the transmitting processing, transmitting print information to the one of the label creating mechanism and the label printer in addition to the cutting-position information, the print information indicating the print object input to the input area via the operation device. 
 
     
     
       10. The non-transitory storage medium according to  claim 9 , wherein a size of the input area displayed in the area display processing when the first image is selected in the selection reception processing is different from a size of the input area displayed in the area display processing when the second image is selected in the selection reception processing. 
     
     
       11. A label creating method performed by one of a label printer and an operation terminal connectable to the label printer,
 wherein the label printer comprises a label creating mechanism configured to create a label by cutting a tape at cutting positions, the tape comprises an elongated label, the elongated label comprises a plurality of first portions and a plurality of second portions in a longitudinal direction of the tape, and each of the plurality of second portions has a dimension greater than a dimension of each of the plurality of first portions in a widthwise direction of the tape, 
 wherein the label creating method comprises:
 obtaining, from a storage, (i) first positional information indicating a first position on one of a first portion and a second portion, the first portion being one of the plurality of first portions, the second portion being one of the plurality of second portions, (ii) second positional information indicating a second position, different from the first position, on one of the first portion and the second portion, (iii) first image information, (iv) third positional information indicating a third position on one of the first portion and the second portion, (v) fourth positional information indicating a fourth position, different from the third position, on one of the first portion and the second portion, and (vi) second image information; 
 controlling a display of one of the label printer and the operation terminal to display a first image based on image data, obtained from the storage, indicating a first label of a first shape and a second image based on image data, obtained from the storage, indicating a second label of a second shape different from the first shape, the first label being created by cutting the tape in the widthwise direction at the first position and the second position, the second label being created by cutting the tape in the widthwise direction at the third position and the fourth position; 
 receiving selection of one of the first image and the second image displayed on the display, based on an operation of an operation device of the one of the label printer and the operation terminal; and 
 transmitting cutting-position information to one of the label creating mechanism and the label printer, the cutting-position information indicating the cutting positions in the tape and being one of: 
 first cutting-position information comprising the first positional information and the second positional information when selection of the first image is received; and 
 second cutting-position information comprising the third positional information and the fourth positional information when selection of the second image is received. 
 
 
     
     
       12. A label printer, comprising:
 a conveyor configured to convey a tape comprising an elongated label that comprises a plurality of first portions and a plurality of second portions in a longitudinal direction of the tape, the plurality of second portions each having a dimension greater than a dimension of each of the plurality of first portions in a widthwise direction of the tape, 
 a printing device configured to print a print object on the tape conveyed by the conveyor; 
 a cutter configured to create a label by cutting, at cutting positions, the tape on which the print object is printed by the printing device; 
 a display; 
 an operation device operable for input; and 
 a controller, 
 wherein the controller is configured to perform:
 displaying a first image based on image data, obtained from the storage, indicating a first label of a first shape and a second image based on image data, obtained from the storage, indicating a second label of a second shape different from the first shape on the display, wherein the first label is created by cutting one of a first portion and a second portion in the widthwise direction of the tape at a first position and cutting one of the first portion and the second portion in the widthwise direction of the tape at a second position different from the first position, the first portion is one of the plurality of first portions, and the second portion is one of the plurality of second portions, and wherein the second label is created by cutting one of the first portion and the second portion in the widthwise direction of the tape at a third position and cutting one of the first portion and the second portion in the widthwise direction of the tape at a fourth position different from the third position; 
 receiving selection of one of the first image and the second image displayed on the display, based on an operation of the operation device; and 
 when selection of the first image is received, controlling the cutter to cut the tape at the first position and the second position as the cutting positions, and when selection of the second image is received, controlling the cutter to cut the tape at the third position and the fourth position as the cutting positions.